[chef] Re: error in windows cookbook in windows platform

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

On Thursday, May 8, 2014 at 11:02 PM, 

 
 wrote:

>  
> hi,
>  
>  
> i developed cookbook with chef windows resources like windows_batch,
> windows_zip and etc. With the help of windows cookbook my cookbook was
> executed.
> some code in my cookbook like
>  
> windows_batch "get latest from TFS" do
> cwd node['tfsscript_path']
> code <<-EOH
> tfsSchedule.exe
> EOH
> end
> windows_zipfile "extract current deployment" do
> source node['dest_currentDeploymentzip']
> action :unzip
> path node['extract_currentDeploymentcode']
> not_if {::File.exists?(node['extract_currentDeploymentcode'])}
> end
>  
> previously it was working fine but suddenly its shows error like below...
>  
> NoMethodError
> -------------
> No resource or method named `windows_zipfile' for `Chef::Recipe 
> "bitrefresh"'
>  
> No resource or method named `windows_batch' for `Chef::Recipe "bitrefresh"'
>  
>  
> iam using hosted chef env and dependency cookbooks like windows, powershell 
> and
> chef_handler for my own cookbook, Idont know how to resolve this??
>  
>  
> Please share details hoe to resolve this...? Thanks in advance!!!!
>  
>  
> Regards,
> Ganesan.A


I would guess that your cookbook isn’t specifying a dependency on the windows 
cookbook. You’ll want to add a `depends` statement. 
http://docs.opscode.com/essentials_cookbook_metadata.html


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Daniel DeLeo